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“When you say “no,” and you mean “no,” and the other person, regardless of whether it’s in a situation where somebody wants to attack you or a situation where somebody wants to change your opinion…

And finally!! The photos from my “Fictional Histories” Project.

The project is all about trade beads and fictionalising history to spread objective truth. All histories are interconnected and that’s what’s beautiful. Let’s learn BIG lessons from history and not ignore it’s impact on our lives today. Every object has a story, Every person can be their own historian. Design can facilitate this story-making through Fiction.

I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. Shout out to Lynton Pepper from #WeOwnCameras! on photgraophy, Melodie Briere on Make Up and Hair and my über beautiful models, Keziah Joseph, Victoria van Wassenhove, Innocent Adriko and Stephanie Jedek!!!! You are all awesome. More developments to come, watch this space.

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Maïmouna Patrizia Guerresi 

As a photographer, sculptor, and installation artist, ‘Maïmouna’ Patrizia Guerresi reveals unique and authentic sensibilities in her narration of the beauty and subtleties of racial diversity and multiculturalism. Over an established career, she has developed her own symbolism, which combines cosmological and ancestral traditions belonging to various European, African, and Asian cultures. Her personal commitment to Baifall Sufism has led her to produce an aesthetic that is able to bridge time, space and civilisations, as well as figuration and abstraction.

The human body is seen as the nucleus and temple of the soul, a place that houses a delicate, higher awareness; the very conduit for encompassing natural and cosmic forces. More about mysticism than any singular religion, her work is visionary in that it restores those elusive qualities of sacredness and unity in our frequently dehumanising and fragmented contemporary visual world. Her classic iconographic style explores the universality of human experience and reclaims the often hidden nurturing powers of feminine energy. Presented as a kind of free flowing epic, the viewer is left to read the significance of her imagery and quietly meditate on its potential to personally engage with its audience. As if her figures were speaking directly to each one of us.